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Introduction
Will you please open your Bible and turn with me to ?
This morning we are going to be looking at only 3 verses, verses 10-12 of .
If you don’t have a Bible you can follow along by looking at the screens in front of you.
Please read along with me as I read
Read .
Pray.
What keeps a person from completely giving up with things get difficult?
What will help someone move forward when things are hard and challenging?
We face challenges with regularity, so what keeps us moving forward?
As a Christian, when you face the accusation, persecution, and scorn, what helps you persevere?
We know that God’s Word points us in several directions where we can find fuel for our endurance.
Already in this letter of 1 Peter we have discovered a few.
In verses 1-2 we saw that our position as outsiders in this world is by a divine call, which should sustain us.
In verses 3-5 we saw that we have been born again, by God, to a salvation that we will fully inherit in the last time, which should sustain us.
And then last week we saw that we can even have joy in our sufferings because we know that God is working in us through them to prove the genuineness of our faith, which should sustain us.
Each of these is critical for Peter and the audience of his letter.
They were living in a world that was hostile to followers of Jesus Christ and therefore they were the objects of persecution and suffering because of their allegiance to Jesus Christ.
They needed gas in their tanks and Peter wrote the encouragements of verses 1-9 to fuel their endurance and fuel their joy.
Peter’s words were not only for them.
They are for us.
Peter’s words are for people like you and me who are living in a world of growing hostility toward Christianity.
A world that mocks Christians and postures themselves as morally superior to Christians.
Peter’s words are for Christians who may be losing hope, or are losing joy as they live in such a world.
Is this the posture of your heart?
You’re not losing hope, but you sure are losing joy.
Your posture isn’t joy in God, it’s bitterness toward the world.
How can you live today, in a world that is against you, and not grow bitter and angry but be humbly and joyful?
THIS is the mark of Christianity!
Do you remember verse 8?
Church, God doesn’t just want us to survive in this hostile world.
He wants us to rejoice in the midst of it!
With eyes full of faith in our Savior, we should rejoice!
So, where else does Peter point us to fuel this joy?
In verses 10-12, Peter points us to the glory of our salvation.
He points us to the amazing nature of our salvation that should fill you and I with awe and fuel our endurance in this present age.
How will you endure?
With awe at your salvation!
We don’t endure begrudgingly.
We don’t endure with our heads hanging low, with frowns on our faces, and anger in our hearts.
No, we live as exiles in this world with joy and a sense of awe.
Do you know what one of my biggest fears for myself is?
That I will lose a sense of awe at my salvation.
Have you?
Have you become so familiar with being a Christian that you’re no longer amazed at how you became one?
Are you bored by someone telling the story of how they were saved?
Are you bored by your own story?
This shouldn’t be the case!
And if it is the case, when we face opposition and hostility in the world for our faith, we will shrink.
We will hide.
Or we will get bitter.
This passage is intended by God to be a cure for the sickness of bored and bitter Christianity.
This passage, I pray, will produce in us a joy-filled awe at our salvation and declare to us that we can endure in this world by being amazed at our salvation.
This is the message of 1 Peter 1:10-12:
Endure in this world by being amazed at your salvation!
As we look at this passage there are three groups that we are going to look at to stir our amazement over our salvation.
These verses point us to (1) prophets, (2) people, and (3) angels.
By looking at these three groups I trust you will be amazed by what God has done.
The first group we see are prophets.
This passage tells us that prophets inquired about your salvation.
Prophets Inquired About Your Salvation
Did you notice this in verses 10-11?
Read them again
This passage tells us that long before God sent His Son to the earth, He was at work through the prophets to declare his coming.
The Holy Spirit was at work through the prophets, inspiring them to write and declare the news of a coming one - a true Messiah that could forgive us from our sins.
Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Jonah, and on and on we can go, were inspired by the Spirit of God to tell of the coming of the Son of God.
Isaiah was inspired to write of His coming this way:
This was declared hundreds of years before Christ came!
Notice in verse 10, though, that this grace that Isaiah prophesied about was a personal grace.
Again in verse 10 Peter said,
Though Peter has this audience in mind it necessarily applies to you as well.
The grace that is yours today, that caused you to be born again to a living hope, that purchased you from your sins through blood of Jesus Christ, was prophesied about long ago!
And those prophets that announced it, longed to see it.
They inquired about it.
Yes, they announced it, and they asked about it!
They wanted to know “when?!” They wanted to see it.
And in their inquiry, what were they told?
Look at verse 12 again:
They were serving not themselves, but they were serving you.
They were serving me.
Isaiah told us about it, but he was not alive to see it.
He was called to serve us.
What Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah longed for, you have seen.
They were serving you.
Do you realize how amazing it is to be saved?
Are you amazed at what God has done for you?? Isaiah would be.
Ezekiel would be.
How great it is to be living on this side of the cross.
We, unlike prophets and saints before, do not look to the shadow but we get the substance.
We don’t wait in anticipation but we live in the time of fulfillment!
Jesus told his disciples how blessed we are to live in such a time:
Do you realize how blessed you are!?
Isaiah wrote for you.
He did it so that you would read it and be amazed at what God has done.
That you would be confident of Jesus’ sacrifice for you.
So that you would have joy and be filled with awe at your salvation.
Endure in this world by being amazed at your salvation!
The second person we see in this passage is the Holy Spirit.
We are reminded that the Holy Spirit declared the gospel to us.
The Holy Spirit Declared The Gospel Of Your Salvation
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